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Evolutionary Game Theory, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Alexander, J. M. (2010, July 23). Evolutionary game theory [Printout with handwritten notes]. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University.

• Shaikh, A., & Elsner, W. (2009, December 15–2010, September 1). Email correspondence on evolutionary game theory, hyperrationality, and microfoundations [Email correspondence].

• Going contemporary, Italian style: La primavera romana è donna. (n.d.). [Article printout].

• Shaikh, A. (2009, September 9). Printed database records with notes and quotations on behavioral and evolutionary economics [Unpublished annotated database records by Anwar Shaikh, PhD], including: Pesendorfer, W. (2006). Behavioral economics comes of …

The Price Of Equality: Suboptimal Resource Allocations Across Social Categories, Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, Avishalom Tor, Dale T. Miller

Journal Articles

This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between a relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and a profit-maximizing yet unequal one. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose not to maximize individual and joint profits when interacting across social categories. Study 3 demonstrated that outside observers, who were not members of the focal social categories, also were less likely to maximize profits when resources were distributed across social category lines. Study 4 showed that the transaction utility of maximizing …

Tournament Incentives, League Policy, And Nba Team Performance Revisited, Joseph Price, Brian P. Soebbing, David Berri, Brad R. Humphreys

Faculty Publications

Taylor and Trogdon found evidence of shirking under some, but not all, draft lottery systems used in three different National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons. The authors use data from all NBA games played from 1977 to 2007 and a fixed effects model to control for unobservable team and season heterogeneity to extend this research. The authors find that NBA teams were more likely to intentionally lose games at the end of the regular season during the seasons where the incentives to finish last were the largest.

Some Professionals Play Minimax: A Reexamination Of The Minimax Theory In Major League Baseball, Jeffrey Park

CMC Senior Theses

This paper explores the behavior of Major League Baseball pitchers. We analyze the pitching data from 2007-2010 in order to determine whether their actions follow minimax play. We also examine what the OPS statistic tells us about a pitcher's value.

Obedience, Schooling, And Political Participation, Davin Chor, Filipe R. Campante

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper proposes a framework for understanding the joint evolution of cultural norms and human capital investment, and how these affect patterns of political participation. We first present some empirical evidence that cultural attitudes towards obedience systematically influence an individual's propensity to engage in different political activities: obedience discourages more confrontational modes of political activity (such as public demonstrations), while raising participation in non-confrontational civic acts (such as voting). These cultural attitudes further appear to be determined in part by cultural transmission across generations. Motivated by this evidence, we develop a dynamic model in which human capital and obedience are …

Contingent Valuation Studies And Health Policy, Matthew D. Adler

Faculty Scholarship

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Financial Management Practices: Associations With Financial Well-Being And Risky Investment Among Families In Malaysia., Husniyah Abd. Rahim

Student Works (2010-2019)

Financial management practices predicting good financial well-being and participation in risky assets among families were identified in this study. It also seeks to find out other factors predicting financial well-being and participation in risky assets. Associations of time horizon with risk preference, and risk preference with financial management practices, differences in financial management practices among the main ethnicities in Malaysia and among families residing in urban and rural areas were also determined. The moderating roles of self-worth between financial management practices and financial well-being of families, and between financial management practices and risky investment by families were explored. Quota sampling …